Thermodynamic footprints

[GliderGuider]

13. Well he's out of luck.

He's dead.

But even if he was still alive, why would I care if he rejected my view? Any more than I care if you do, or anyone else?

Let's say I don't tag Harris' name or connection to CM onto to it. Lets say I simply use the tripartite view of society (cherry-picked from Marx, just as Harris did) and the notion that humans do most of what we do to enable energy and resource acquisition down in the infrastructure, but I didn't say a word about Uncle Marvin. Would your opinion change? Because that's essentially what I've done.

We all cherry-pick ideas, after all - you, me, Marvin Harris and every other thinker under the sun. When we like what's been done with the cherries we call it intellectual progress. When we don't, we call it misappropriation...

ETA: You make a good point though. I think I'm at a point with this work where I can call a lot of it my own, and simply acknowledge Harris, Odum and Swenson as the source of some of the ideas.